Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"There are many Capricio's, that must be borne with, from them; but, in all other Cases, my Mind is my Kingdom; I am absolute, and will be so."Work: The Plain Dealer. No 44http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22280
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22280"Where this Passion is Real, It will be the Sovereign of the Mind. It moulds the Soul to its own Purposes; and lends its own Eyes to the Understanding."Work: The Plain Dealer, No. 66 http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22288
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22288"Where shall we, now, those bright Ideas find, / That peopled Thought, from thy creating Mind?"Work: The Plain Dealer, No 53 http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22286
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22286"But, to a close, and sordid, Soul, they are like Torches, which we carry down, to illuminate a sickly Dungeon: Where they expose, but the more disgracefully, the narrow Cells, bare Walls; and Dirtiness."Work: The Plain Dealer, No 38 http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22279
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22279"The true Use of Titles, is, That they may serve, as shining Lights, to lay open and illustrate, the spacious Chambers of a Mind well-furnished."Work: The Plain Dealer, No 38 http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22278
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22278"Oh, Jealousy!--All other Storms are Calms / To Thee!--Thou Conflagration of the Soul!"Work: The Plain Dealer, No 33 http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22276
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22276"This comes to acquaint you, That my dear Spouse is taken sick, of a sudden, and stands in need, to the utmost Degree, of that Experience in Mind-Midwifery, which you gave out Bills about, in your XXVIIth Paper."Work: The Plain Dealer, No 33 http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22275
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/22275"But Passion's <i>Phalanx</i>, no calm Influence breaks; / Truth, till <i>strong-mounted</i>, ev'ry Danger <i>shakes</i>."Work: The Fanciad. An Heroic Poem.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12523
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12523"To lift my Vot'ries, in this partial Age, /Pleas'd without Pomp, self-conscious, and alone, / Nor rais'd, thus light, on Fancy's airy Throne"Work: The Fanciad. An Heroic Poem.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12522
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12522A disembodied mind may "In <i>Fleury</i>'s brainy Cells, [its] Entrance <i>hide</i>: / Heedful attend, where Thought's dim <i>Embryos</i> lie: / Fan the speck'd Fire--but bend its Flame <i>awry</i>.Work: The Fanciad. An Heroic Poem.http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12514
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/12514